Yep, which is amazing that it's a Labor plan opposed by the Liberals, rather
than the other way around. Liberals are the party who usually give taxpayers
money to big business. Don't the mining companies want an NBN I wonder? :-)

I pay a bucketful for all sorts of infrastructure that I will never use,
thats the way that society works.

Anyway it is highly likely that the average user will use that bandwidth
in future, for instance, in the US, video stores are becoming an
endangered species, more and more people are downloading their rental
movies from online vendors. Thats just one change, cloud computing and
software as a service are the way that the industry is moving like it or
not. Google's new operating system is probably the way of the future,
just enough mechanism to run the browser and get on the internet.
So,instead of paying Adobe $1000 for a copy of photoshop to edit your
photos, you'll rent it by the hour, the megabyte or whatever, and that
will take more than the 12 furlongs per cubic fortnight that the Monk is
offering.

But no plan to upgrade those gravel roads! Nor any plan for a High speed
National Rail freight network. And only one extra passenger rail line
proposed. I'm still puzzled why broadband is considered more important than
housing, food, electricity, water, public transport and roads?

Some people think they want it and that is all that is needed. the rest
of us know that those wireless towers are going to need enormous bundles
of fibre and that it is easier and better to just get another fibre put
to them with better bandwidth/signal/picture/more/super/delux/platinum/
another superlative/etc service.